Multi-purpose visual-language system based on braille

Abstract

The present invention relates to a visual language to be used on the multipurpose of a information input / output at the information age, in particular, relates to a visual language based on Braille and alphabets for providing the visually handicapped with easy access method to the information and the ordinary persons with applications including various methods as well as replacement of the barcode, for inputting / outputting the previous Braille and alphabets by indicating them with color lattice, saturation lattice, brightness lattice, figure and patter and for printing out with a normal print. The present invention receives several Braille, extracts a predefined property and a value thereof corresponding to each of the several Braille cell, and indicates the extracted the value accumulatively according to a predefined way.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation application, and claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §§ 120 and 365 of PCT Application No. PCT / KR02 / 00642, filed on Apr. 11, 2002 and published on Nov. 21, 2002, in English, which is hereby incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates to a visual language and a visual language system. Particularly, the present invention relates to a multipurpose visual language system based on the Braille(raised letter) for the visually handicapped and multipurpose application across the whole industry.[0004]The present invention also relates to new visual language extended raised letter system, and particularly the extended raised letters and its relevant system which are able to indicate the previous raised letters multi-dimensionally with color, figure and pattern, to combine characters with syllable cluster, to allow common person to use multipurposely by printin...

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[0029]One aspect of the present invention extends the previous raised letters with lattice images, figures, and patterns having color easy to be optically translated. Then the extended raised letters is printed out with a common printer and translated by the reading apparatus. Due to the characteristics of the visual language, it is easy to convert a text read by the ordinary persons to the raised letters read by the visually handicapped.

[0034]Another aspect of the present invention is to provide the multipurpose visual language system based on the raised letters having the ability of the infinite storage of information and of replacing the previous barcode with the visual language. At present, due to the cost, the raised letters are not indicated on medicines and foodstuffs. If this new visual language would be indicated thereon, the logistic maintenance can be achieved in the face of industry and the visually handicapped can understand the contents of the visual language by a visual language translator. Furthermore, the ordinary persons can understand the contents with the visual language translator as do with a barcode reading apparatus. Since the visual language is based on the previous raised letters, the previous raised letters, of course, can be indicated and the accuracy of bi-directional translation (common character <−> raised letter) can be achieved by internally using the visual language. The ordinary persons can communicate with the visually handicapped by inputting a text and printing the text and the visual language.

[0035]Furthermore, another aspect of the present invention is to provide the multipurpose visual language system based on the raised letters allowing the visually handicapped to effectively access all information on the industry with the new visual language and system.

[0036]The visual language can achieve the variety of applications to industry fields, one to one correspondence to the previous language as the extended language. Also, the visual language allows the visually handicapped to be benefited by using the multi-dimension and cluster concepts and all the mankind to be benefited by using the visual language as common language. Also, the visual language is easy to be bi-directionally transformed as meta-language of the general language and the raised letter and optically read.

[0039]In order to decide whether the contents inputted in the visual language is correct, it is possible to indicate the visual language and other language together. For example, by indicating the general language at the bottom of the visual language, the simple decision of the misspelling and correction of the visual language are achieved. Furthermore, by indicating the raised letters at the bottom of the visual language, the visually handicapped can easily decide whether the inputted visual language is correct. Also, by providing the visual language and the sounds, the weak-eyed and the aurally handicapped can decide whether the inputted visual language is correct. In this case, the sounds are automatically created and provided corresponding to the contents inputted by a sound transformation program included within the visual language input unit.

[0044]For example, imagine that there is an alphabet indication system that properties corresponding to the initial, medial and final consonants of the Korean alphabet use the visual information of each color, brightness and saturation. In this case, each character of the Korean alphabets can be indicated with the visual information including a color value, a brightness value and a saturation value. And, by extracting the initial consonant corresponding to the color value, the medial consonant corresponding to the brightness and the final consonant corresponding to the saturation value from the visual information, reading of the alphabet with the visual information is possible.

Problems solved by technology

Also, due to many simplified characters, it is difficult to learn the raised letters.

Generally speaking, the ordinary persons don't know the inconvenience of the raised letters in that they are made in consideration for the visually handicapped.

If a book would be translated to the letters, the translated book will be tens of time larger than the original one and the cost for printing the translated book will be considerably increased.

In the reading / writing mode, to conduct the reading and writing together is possible, but to correct is impossible.

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